Mapping Job Titles to Seniority Levels: Pre-Clay Methods Explained

For those who have been doing GTM longer than I: I need to go from a person’s title to their seniority level. I know how to build this in Clay. What I’m just curious about is how this was done pre- Clay, pre-LLMs? I assume via a list of titles -> regex -> seniority mapping?

4 comments

Amit S.
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A lookup table is my guess.
Andreas W.
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agreed. I’d love to know how they handled (or are mostly handling) the many outliers and variations without LLMs
Amit S.
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Whenever there is an outlier (a new value), add the mapping for that record to the lookup table.
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Elias S.
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Like Amit says you could probably use an LLM to generate a ton of job titles for the departments you're focusing on, and then use Clay's Map/Group feature to put them in the right groups based on this info!